New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) Criticising the government over its handling of the Baba Ramdev episode, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Saturday said only a "desperate ... Read more...

By Asit Srivastava
Chandauli (Uttar Pradesh), Dec 28 (IANS) Siyaram, a small farmer in Uttar Pradesh, has created a unique musical instrument - a combination of nine different instruments including a steel plate ... Read more...

London, Dec 28 (ANI): A new discovery of 400,000-yr-old human remains has raised doubts as to whether the first humans evolved out of Africa, as the popular theory goes, or elsewhere.Archaeologists from ... Read more...

New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) The Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) has announced that the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week Autumn-Winter 2011 will be held April 6-10."The recently concluded edition of ... Read more...

By Madhuri Dey
Sep 1, (THAINDIAN NEWS) It seems that there is no end to the controversies surrounding Glenn Beck's claimed apolitical rally "Restoring Honor" that was organized during the weekend at the ... Read more...

Washington, June 15 (ANI): The volume of water molecules locked inside minerals in the Moon's interior could exceed the amount of water in the Great Lakes here on Earth, NASA-funded scientists claim.The ... Read more...

March 22, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): In Haiti, one of the most torrential rains ever since the catastrophic January 12 earthquake inundated the dispossessed camps on Friday. These rainfalls have pushed ... Read more...

Imphal, Feb. 20 (ANI): Nagas in Manipur and Nagaland celebrated their annual seed sowing festival of Lui-Ngai-Ni, unique to their cultural.Considered to be one of the biggest festivals for Nagas, Lui-Ngai-Ni, was ... Read more...

Sydney, Feb 17 (ANI): A team of paleontologists has found fossils in Canada that show the earliest evidence of animal locomotion, which suggests that they must have had muscles.According to a report ... Read more...

Washington, December 22 (ANI): A team of scientists has discovered the first poisonous, birdlike raptor that thrived some 128 million years ago in China, which is the first report of venom in ... Read more...

Washington, Dec 22 (IANS) Researchers have stumbled on the remains of the first ever venomous, birdlike raptor that flourished 128 million years ago in China.
"This thing is a venomous bird for ... Read more...

Washington, July 28 (ANI): A new analysis of jade found along the Motagua fault that bisects Guatemala is underscoring the fact that this region has a more complex geologic history than previously ... Read more...

By Subhash K. Jha
Mumbai, March 12 (IANS) It's an unheard-of screen phenomenon. For his intense political drama "Rajniti", Prakash Jha has hired and trained 5,000 theatre actors to play the participants in ... Read more...

By Sunil Sharma
Chandigarh, Nov.14 (ANI): Not many people may know that modern-day Chandigarh city, mostly designed by Swiss born French architect and planner Le Corbusier, also has a pre-historic past.
About ... Read more...

Nicosia (Capital city, Cyprus), June 27 (ANI): Archaeologists have uncovered what appears to have been a jewellery workshop during excavations at a 5,000-year old settlement in Cyprus.According to a report ... Read more...

Washington, June 10 (ANI): A new research has determined that climate change has hastened extinction in Madagascars reptiles and amphibians, with three species in the region predicted to go extinct between ... Read more...